OK I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS COMIC IS BRILLIANT. I mean, I love David Haller story here and his struggle with other mutant, and side story about his father too. I also love David-Ruth relation here. AND I'M SO PUMPED UP WHEN I SAW CHARLES IN THE END.

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“My name is Legion, for we are many.”from The Bible, The Exorcist and an episode of Scooby Doo, where the monsters were real.Legion, aka David Haller, aka Charles Xavier’s love child, aka first rate loon, is back. This time he’s trying to do the right thing, yet nobody believes him. He not only has daddy issues*, he has multiple personality disorder and each personality not only contains a grade A power, but also vies to take control of his psyche, hence an ongoing dilemma. He’s been working on

This is David Haller perhaps better known as Legion. He's the Omega Level Mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier. Which sounds great except that David is called Legion because he has at least 100 personalities in his head, who each have their own mutant powers. Oh and David struggles to keep control of these personalities. His father, with some help, built a mental prison to aid David's sanity and assist with his control of his powers. During the events of Avengers vs X-Men, Charles left David a...

This is a great example of a cover fulfilling its potential. The writer, Si Spurrier, is a relative unknown and on a fairly obscure charater who has had a few recent impressive appearances (Age of X) with out any eponymous monthly series to its name. However, it does have an impressive cover and it was all it took for me to try out (that and the favorable reviews on Twitter). That cover, by Mike del Mundo, was the cover of the first issue and also the cover of this first c0llected trade. It was

Will Marvel ever learn how to write accents in a way that doesn't sound totally hacky? Perhaps, one day, in a near future, much like our own . . . This was quite a good Legion story, obviously the beginning of a new series, so it didn't leave me scratching my head and wondering who the heck everyone was. It had creepy twins, and fascinating flashbacks, and Legion running around shirtless, so that was all a win.But seriously: THE ACCENTS.

I saw somebody call this a 'Vertigo X-Men book', and that really is the best way to describe it. Chock full of mindblowing ideas and excellent characterization, this has to be one of the best X-books I've ever read, and that's coming from a long time X-fan. This book is about David Haller, the legendary Professor Xavier's son. There are three things you should know about David: one, he's struggling with mental illness. He has Dissociative Identity Disorder, more commonly known as multiple person...

Well that was just damn weird.

Inspired to read this from watching Legion (so so excellent, everyone go watch it!) and hearing Si Spurrier on various comics-related podcasts. Not sure where in continuity this comes, which was slightly confusing, but then, that's the whole point of Legion (to an extent)! The representation of David's messed up mind (I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying that) and the interplay between his mind and the 'real world' is expertly done and makes for a crazy fun read. Also the X-Men come off a huge je...

Love this guy. So freaking glad I got hooked on the show enough to drive me to look deeper in to his character. On to Volume 2.

I'm very surprised by this book. First because it exists at all. Who had the bright idea of dedicating a solo title to Xavier's mostly forgotten son? I can't imagine that David (formerly Legion, but he hates that name) had much of a fan following clamoring for his return as an unconventional hero. That alone was risky. Also risky: making this the one title (that I've seen) that questions the legacy of Saint Xavier. After reading book after book that speaks of the Prof in hushed, reverent tones,

David Haller aka Legion is Professor X's long lost son. He's also enormously dull to read which is why they called this X-Men: Legacy rather than Legion.So Legion is, like the biblical Legion, possessed of hundreds of beings in his mind. David - who's Scottish for some reason - has been spending years at a spiritual retreat trying to use Eastern mysticism to control his demons, somewhat successfully. Then something happens, the retreat is destroyed and Legion is thrown back into the superhero wo...

I found Simon Spurrier's David Haller a bit fickle and peckish, and never really got into him. I know it's supposed to be a change in perspective, but this David Haller is no way near as brilliant or devious as Mike Carey's David Haller in Lost Legions. For me, the volume's only saving grace was Blindfold. Way to step for her, knifing Luca like that. Bravo!

I was leery of this one. The Legion character (Son of Professor X, extremely powerful, b@t$hit crazy) had never been one of my favorites and I wasn't sure how a series would be with him as the main character. I will say that at least as far as this first volume goes I was pleasantly surprised. The X-Men do make an appearance (it is technically an X-Men book after all) but the focus of the story is definitely on Legion. If you're an X-Men fan and maybe remember Legion from the old days you'd prob...

4.5 starsThis was my first time reading a Si Spurrier book, and I can say now that his plotting and writing live up to the amazing cover art for this series. David Haller is finally a character(s) I truly care about.

I came across Mike Del Mundo's art on Best Art Ever This Week and thought it was brilliant, despite being only vaguely familiar with the Marvel characters he features. I dug a little deeper and saw some of his work on X-Men Legacy. Again, I wasn't at all familiar with the character but thought his work was some of the most creative cover-work out there. I mean...And those are just some of the issues from this particular Vol 1: Prodigal. Some of my other favorites from this run are...The bottom l...

I am grateful that David, the son of Professor Xavier, has not been forgotten in the aftermath of the giant swordfight between Cyclops and Wolverine. This is not a typical X-book, and deviates wildly from the original story that introduced David -- but I think that's okay. Here, David has found peace, albeit shortlived as he is drawn back into his father's world of spandex fisticuffs. And that is perhaps what has made him more proactive. He is sick to death of being told what the "mutant dream"

Simon Spurrier is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite comic writers- up there with Grant Morrison, Brian Michael Bendis, and Scott Snyder (Another newer favorite). Spurrier's writing is incredibly smart, and each character has a distinctive voice, and accompanied with it a fitting accent as well. When I first heard of this book, and the character it centered on I wasn't very interested. The previous iteration of X Men Legacy focused on much more popular characters, with Rogue as the ma...

X-Men books have always explored topical issues (to varying degrees of success), but kudos to Simon Spurrier for exploring and handling mental illness is such an exciting new way. David Haller is a character who is broken in more ways than one -- truly, he suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, and/or possibly schizophrenia? Which is also the source of his powers. This entire 25 issue run goes a long way in seeing how and why he ticks as he tries to overcome his shortcomings, or perhaps em...

The somewhat forgotten, bat-**** crazy son if Prof. X starring in his own book?!?! Yup! And it works. He had Dissociative Identity Disorder, in a bad way. Each personality had its own power. He's becoming better. He want to follow in the foot steps on his dead father, yet forge his own path. He want to help, rather than be apart of a "bondage gear army of angst-ridden @$$ hats....that don't actually create a better world" (that's the X-Men BTW). Neat concept! It's all building toward something.